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Author: Mike West Saugatuck research indicates seven area of critical management challenges that any ISV needs to address and resolve – repeatedly – as it transitions to, and then tries to remain competitive in, Cloud-oriented markets. Previously, we pro ...

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Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate for all types of IT and business use, Saugatuck has revamped and expanded its research programs regarding ISV business and technology transitions into Cloud-driven markets, including the global ...

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Author: Charlie Burns Dimension Data continues to receive significant funding from parent firm NTT, and is investing heavily in offerings which capitalize on and build upon their core Cloud growth strategy. This solid focus on Cloud offerings and their u ...

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31 May 2013
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Author: Bruce Guptill Conversations with enterprise IT and business leaders suggest that the rapid evolution of Cloud for enterprise business may be more misunderstood by analysts and media than by enterprise executives and decision makers. This Strategi ...

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17 May 2013
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Authors: Mike West and Bill McNee The emergence of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ is clearly reshaping what it takes to be a successful Cloud ISV.  Not only are today’s Cloud-savvy Enterprise buyers looking for new kinds of solutions that often make ...

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Author: Bruce Guptill A new Saugatuck Strategic Research Report spotlights the accelerating changes in known and unknown IT and business requirements, while laying out a framework for seeing, understanding, and managing this often-underestimated shift in ...

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Author: Bruce Guptill With physical IT and business boundaries already dissipating, will ubiquitous, cheap smartphones be the force that tips global business into new architectures and new business models, faster than we think and sooner than we’re ready ...

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30 April 2013
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Authors: Mike West, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee, Charlie Burns, Alex Bakker Recent Cloud-driven changes in services, technologies, and capabilities have shaped a radical and complete re-thinking of the roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and value of en ...

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Author: Bruce Guptill SaaS/Cloud software services and providers have matured to the point where, in almost every market, ISVs offer extremely similar functionality, and now need more and better ways of differentiation. And while that functionality may b ...

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Authors: Brian Dooley and Alex Bakker The development of mobile platforms and their attached ecosystems by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry has created a new competition within IT, in which vendors and mobile platforms themselves fight for mindsh ...

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Author: Mike West In adapting to client needs for compliance with Solvency II in the UK, Milliman’s financial modeling solution went from a dedicated, on-premises, PC-based to a Cloud solution on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, utilizing scalable h ...

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Author: Charlie Burns Adoption of Cloud IT offerings began, and mostly remains, based on the attraction of reduced infrastructure costs. However, ongoing conversations with users have shown that simply selecting a Cloud infrastructure offering does not e ...

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Author: Bruce Guptill What makes Cloud IT and Business work to competitive advantage is innovation – innovation in how and where these technologies and services are used to enable new and better ways of doing business, and to enable entirely new business ...

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Authors: Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee What makes Cloud IT and Business work to competitive advantage is innovation – innovation in how and where these technologies and services are used to enable new and better ways of doing business, and to enable ...

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Author: Bruce Guptill In our recent work with several Master Brand (i.e., ecosystem-dominant) ISVs, Saugatuck has recently revamped our ongoing research and guidance regarding ISV Cloud efforts. Over the years, we have identified core areas of management ...

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Authors: Bruce Guptill, Mike West,  Charlie Burns Announcements within the past two weeks by IBM and Oracle have been touted as helping to promote the use of private Clouds. Saugatuck believes that they may actually help to limit the attractiveness ...

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Author: Mike West As Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, Saugatuck has revamped its ongoing ISV programs to refresh and expand our research and guidance regarding ISV Cloud efforts. Over the years, we have identified seven areas of management challen ...

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Author: Charlie Burns On 15 February, Amazon announced broad availability and new partners for Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse offering. On 4 March, IBM announced that all of its cloud services will be based on an open source cloud architecture. A ...

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Author: Charlie Burns Not surprisingly, ongoing discussions with Cloud users and providers indicate that the popularity of Cloud-based solutions continues to expand. However, the same discussions reveal the increasing incidence of enterprise IT organizat ...

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Author: Alex Bakker and Bruce Guptill This week has been full of Cloud Big Data and analytics announcements. From Intel to Microsoft, RedHat to VMware, IBM to Informatica, we’ve seen a series of rollouts, enhancements, extensions and open source contribu ...

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